Reading Lists

SHO Reading List

A+E

• A Companion to Emergency Medicine (Freeman et al)

Dermatology

• Clinical Dermatology Illustrated (Reeves)
• Wolfe: A Colour Atlas of Dermatology (Levene)
• Colour Atlas of Paediatric Dermatology (Verbor & Morley)
• Clinical Dermatology (MacKie)

Obs & Gynae

• Churchill's Pocket Guide to O&G
• Contraception : your questions answered (Guillebaud)
• Notes for the DRCOG (Kaye)

Paediatrics

• What to do in a Paediatric Emergency (Higginson, Montgomery & Munro, BMJ)
• Essential Paediatrics (Hull & Johnston)
• From Birth to Five (Mary Sheriden)
• The Normal Child (Ilingworth)

Palliative Care

• A-Z Pocketbook of Symptom Control (Peter Kaye)
• On Death & Dying (Kubler-Ross)
• On Dying (Hinton)

Psychiatry

• Psychotropic Drug Directory (Stephen Bazire)

GPR Reading List

Practical General Practice

• Oxford Registrar Pocket Guide (Oxford Series)
• Making Sense of General Practice (Ellis)
• Running a Practice (Bolden et al)
• Churchill’s Pocket Guide to General Practice
• Management in Practice (Oxford Series)
• The Screening Handbook (Fry)
• Local Regional Guidelines
• nGMS contract

Minor Surgery

• Atlas of Minor Surgery (Cracknell)
• Joint & Soft Tissue Injection (Silver)
• Practice Tips (Murtagh)

For the Doctor's Bag

• Emergencies in GP (Mould)
• Handbook of Emergencies in General Practice (Lawrence et al)
• What to do in a Paediatric Emergency (Higginson, Montgomery & Munro, BMJ)
• A-Z Pocketbook of Symptom Control (Peter Kaye)
• Psychotropic Drug Directory (Stephen Bazire)

Reference Books

• BNF or MIMS

• Merck Manual
• Clinical Medicine (Kumar & Clarke)
• Oxford Handbook of Medicine (Hope et al)
• Immunisation Against Infectious Disease (DASS)
• Medical Aspects of Fitness to Drive
• Health Information for Overseas Travel (DoH)

Communication Books

• The Inner Consultation (Neighbour)
• The Doctor’s Communication Handbook(Tate)
• The Consultation: an approach to learning and teaching (Pendleton & Schofield)
• The Doctor, His Patient and the illness (Balint)
• Doctors talking to Patients (Byrne & Long)
• Games People Play (Berne)
• Teaching interpersonal skills (Burnard)
• The Dr-Patient Relationship (Brown & Freeling)
• Six minutes for the Patient (Balint & Norell)
• Relating to the Relatives: breaking bad news, communication and support (Brewin & Sparshott)
• The 15 Minute Hour: applied psychotherapy for the primary care physician (Stuart et al)
• Skills for Communicating with patients (Silverman et al)
• Teaching and Learning Communication Skills in Medicine (Silverman et al)
• Individual Psychotherapy and the Science of Psychodynamics (Malan)
• The Doctor, the Patient and the Group (Balint)
• How to Break Bad News (Buckman)
• Talking Sense (Asher)
• Talking with Patients (Myerscough & Ford)
• The Official Doctor-Patient Handbook (Duckworth Publications)
• What are you feeling, Doctor? (Salinsky & Sackin)
• The Consultation Toolkit (Drucquer & Hutchinson)

Clinical Books

Geriatric Medicine

• Geriatric Problems in practice (Wilcock, Oxford Series)

ENT

• ABC of ENT (BMA Books)

Eyes

• What shall I do? (Kasky & Daly)
• The Unquiet Eye (Bron)
• The Eye in General Practice (Jackson & Finley)

General Practice

• Practical General Practice (Khot & Polmear)

O & G

• Contraception: your questions answered (Guillebaud)
• Womens Problems in Practice (McPherson & Anderson, Oxford Series)
• Modern Obstetrics in GP (Oxford Series)

Medicine

• Oxford Handbook of Medicine (Hope)

Paeds

• What to do in a Paediatric Emergency (Higginson, Montgomery & Munro, BMJ)
• Child Health Surveillance Handbook (Hall)
• Toddler Taming (Green)
• The Normal Child (Illingworth)
• From Birth to Five Years (Mary Sheridon)
• ABC of 1-7 (BMA Books)
• Manual of Child Development (Lingam & Harvey)

Palliative Care

• A-Z Pocketbook of Symptom Control (Peter Kaye)
• Living with Dying (Saunders)
• Domiciliary Terminal Care (Doyle)

Psychiatry

• A Guide to Psychiatry in Primary Care (Casey)
• Psychotropic Drug Directory (Stephen Bazire)

MRCGP/SUMM Assess

MRCGP/Summ Assess

• Notes for the MRCGP (Palmer)
• MRCGP Study Book (Sandars)
• Pass Summative Assessment and the MRCGP (Lindsay)

MCQs

• MCQ Practice Papers (Elliott)
• MCQs in Primary Health Care (McGuiness)

MEQs

• MEQs for the MRCGP Examination (Murray)
• Answer Plans for the MRCGP (Kilburn)

Hot Topics

• Hot Topics in General Practice (Stacey)
• Dilemmas in General Practice (Warren)
• Postgraduate Tutorials in General Practice (Warren)

General MCRGP Test Books

• MRCGP: Approaching the new modular examination (Sandars)
• MRCGP Practice Papers (Ellis & Elliott)

Critical Appraisal

• Critical Reading Questions for the MRCGP (Stacey & Toun)
• A Pocket Guide to Critical Appraisal (Crombie)
• How to Read a Paper (Greenhalgh)
• Essential Statistics for Medical Practice (Rees)

Others

• RCGP Occasional Papers (available from the Royal College)
• Evidence Based Medicine (Sackett)
• Clinical Guidelines from Conception to Use (Eccles & Grimshaw)

Journals

• BMJ   http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/
  most GP's either scan or read the relevant sections regularly
• BJGP   http://www.rcgp.org.uk/journal
  worth scanning, esp for MRCGP

Bulletins

• Drugs & Therapeutic Bulletin (DTB)   http://www.dtb.org.uk/dtb
• MeReC Bulletin   http://www.npc.co.uk/merec.htm
  valued by many GP's. Succinct & Authoritative
• Guidelines (Medendium)
  Published twice per year. up to date collection of guidelines. especially good for MRCGP takers.

Magazines

• Pulse   http://www.pulse-i.co.uk/paper
• GP   http://www.gponline.com
• Doctor   http://www.doctorupdate.net/du_home/du_home.asp
  Each has its own followers. Pick one to read regularly.

Smaller Magazines

• Training Update
• Practitioner
  Often contain useful clinical review and up to date information. They also have a registrar section and hot tips for the MRCGP. Worth scanning for content.